Week of 4-25-10 Lit 12 Lesson Plans

Mon (Due: Read stories from The Things They Carried)

• Cultural Literacy
• Survival Game
• Discussion of The Things They Carried
  

Tue (due: Read "The Man I Killed" )

• Cultural Literacy
• Survival Game
• Discussion of The Things They Carried

Wed (due: Read )

• Cultural Literacy
• Computers to work on 2 forum posts- (17 total)
• Blog Post: #7. If you had 50-100 pounds of stuff that you HAD to carry with you in a war, what other item(s) would you take just for you and why? ........ AND/OR If the world was about to end, what would you save if you could save enough to stick in a backpack (why)?
• Work on Character analysis paper

Thu (due: Read "Ambush")

• Cultural Literacy
• Free Reading

Fri (due:  Character analysis paper )

• turn in Character analysis paper (due today)
•  Discussion of On the Rainy River and How to Tell a True War Story
• take any untaken quizzes and note any upcoming expiration dates
• this week required  2 forum posts- (17 total)  Pride and Prejudice, The Things They Carried, or You Can't Take it With You
• make sure your blogs are done (below) Last Blog post: #7. If you had 50-100 pounds of stuff that you HAD to carry with you in a war, what other item(s) would you take just for you and why? ........ AND/OR If the world was about to end, what would you save if you could save enough to stick in a backpack (why)?

 BLOG POSTS LIST Blog Post:

1. How are men and women really different as shown in the texts?

OR How has marriage changed from the time of one of the texts until now? (texts are: Dinner Party, The Quiet Man, A Doll's House, and Too Soon a Woman)

2. Letter to a future spouse

3. Using the texts and your own experience, how can people feel trapped in a relationship and what can we do to avoid it?

OR Using the texts and your own experience, what role does money play in the decisions we make?

4.  Jury - Discuss the times (if ever) killing another person is justified and whether or not this is the case in the short story "A Jury of Her Peers"

5. Why are Jane Austen's characters interesting today even though she wrote the book around 200 years ago?

6.  Why is it nearly impossible for Elizabeth to turn down both Mr. Collins and Mr. Darcy in marriage, and why does she do it anyhow?

7. If you had 50-100 pounds of stuff that you HAD to carry with you in a war, what other item(s) would you take just for you and why? ........ AND/OR If the world was about to end, what would you save if you could save enough to stick in a backpack (why)?